Arranged and described at the collection level by Sarah Quigley, November 2018. Boxes 1-29 were inventoried at the file level by a student employee in 1982. It appears that the student transcribed exactly what was on the folders. Research Services student employees reviewed that inventory for accuracy in 2018. Sarah Quigley reviewed boxes 30-33, transcribed the original inventory, and added box descriptions for the last four boxes in 2018. Original abbreviations and acronyms were replaced with full names and phrases when possible.

Biographical Note

Robert Edward Hanie, author, educator, and leader in organizations concerned with social change, was born in 1937. He taught school in East Africa (1961-1964) and studied at Emory University. Robert Hanie was founder and first director of the Georgia Conservancy, director of the Georgia Natural Areas Council, and executive director of Atlanta 2000, a public planning corporation founded in July 1973 to study the problems of human ecology that would be faced in the Atlanta metropolitan area by the turn of the twenty-first century.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of personal papers and organizational records. Personal papers include Hanie's birth certificate and correspondence, photographs, and printed material from his tenure as a teacher in East Africa (1961-1964). Organizational records include speeches, schedules, agendas, correspondence, reports, financial records, subject files, and printed materials documenting the span of the work of Atlanta 2000 and Hanie's association with the organization (1973-1979).

Arrangement Note

Arranged in the original order of the creator.

Finding Aid Note

A rough inventory of this collection is available in the collection file.